The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-28
Because He Brought to Public Attention the
Presidents Approval of Service Pension
Retaliation on Other Members.
The Interstate Railway Law and Its
Possible Effect on Passenger Fares.
A Cast-Iron Long Range Gun Which Is
Thought To Be a Weapon Of Great Power
Another Pension Nut for Cleveland.
CLEvELAND'S WRATH.

1t Will Be Vented on Democrats Who Voted
Against His Veto of the Pension Bill.
epecial to tho Indianapolis Journaz
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.-President Cleveland
is very acrid in his expressions towards the
Democrats in the House who voted against his
veto of the dependent parents pension bill. and
has begun to retaliate. He threatens to cut off
the patronage of Chairman Matson, of the COM
mttee invalid pensions, declaring that he
tMatson) acted in bad faith by reading in the
some time ago, by Mr.. Cleveland. 1t is said
that the President vetoed the bill providing for
public building at Lynn, Mass, because Low
ering, the Representative from that city, refused
to vote to sustain the veto of the pension bill.
Mayburv, of Detroit, is another Democrat who
voted against the veto. He has bill appropri
ating 81 100 600 for public building at Detroit,
which will 60 the President for his signature
this week, and Maybury is very much afraid it
will be vetoed. Friends of the administration,
and especially officials of the Pension Office.
trying to bolster up the veto by dsparagins the
evidence generally presented in pension cases,
and are ibeling pensioners in general They
are circulating all manner of stories intended to
help the President in his veto. A pension office
official is interviewed in today's Capital (admin
istration organ). and he says:
II don't see the necessity Of dependent pen
sion bill, or any other, for the laws are loose
enough now to give nearly every man who can
show honorable service q pension. / have been
in the department now for several years, and
could enumerate scores Of cases that have come
under my own notice that knew were backed
e.1, &C.
! where pensions are for disease contracted in the
service. For instance. an examiner had claim,
the other day. from a soldier who applied several
years since for pension, claiming he had con-
tracted kidney disease IN the service. Five COM
rades swore that the claimant was a sound man, J,
free from disease, vixen he entered the army.
| and contracted the disease for which he claimed
| a pension in the service; while ten good neigh
bors made afidavts to the effect that he had, to
| their personal knowledge, been sufferer from
| the disease ever since his return These afida-
Wits were corroborated by a ply ysician's affidavit
| which stated that he had attended the claimant
for five years for that disease since the physi-
| clans residence in the town. Five boards of
| examiners, each board composed of three
competent physicians, making fifteen. certified
that he had signs at all of the kidney disease
| That would indicate that the claimants affida-
Wits were false but that isn't all. As he couldn't
| get pension for kidney disease, he wrote on to
the Office stating that it wasn't kidney disease
| that allied him, but rheumatism. 1t took him
nearly twenty years to find out he
had contracted kidney disease in the
service. and about a month to as
certain that it wasn't disease of the kidneys,
but rheumatism that he suffered from. Now, all
he has to do is to furnish the evidence that he
has supplied as to the other complaint and if
the examining board certiies, after the examin-
alton, that he has rheumatism, he will get a pen
sion. while all the evidence indicates that he is
| not entitled to it at all"
| Doesn't the law reach these men, and can't
they be indicted for perjuryl" was asked.
| "The governtaent would have pretty big job
on its hands if it tried it. AS said, any un.
scrupulous man who served in the war cap get a
pension, and lots of them are now regularly
drawing money from the government to which
| they are not in any manner entitled"